SUNDAY MORNING HELLO

This was taken as the sun was setting Saturday evening. I drive past this ten or more times in a day. But I remember to stop and look at it and appreciate it.






This is our old fire hall. Okay, it does sort of look run down. When they began the new fire hall, they let it go. It will sit for years empty and falling into ruin. That's what we do here. I do not get that.






This is the new fire hall. Our firemen are all volunteers. We do employ a licensed EMT. We have lots of wrecks on our freeway.

The weekend was nice enough. It began Friday with a visit from Bear and Mikey. We walked the length of town and back. Its a 7 mile long walk going up and down long, subtle hills.

I don't like to walk with other people generally. They don't walk at my pace, and frankly, I am not there to chat. I am walking for the aerobic benefits. Bear stepped right up and kept a good pace, even pushing the stroller. We stopped mid-way at the other end of town at the park so that Mikey could swing and play. I did too.

This is the Rock & Gem Show. It was in the park too. Lots of people with dogs were there. Mikey stepped in poo twice. I wish that people would scoop their dog's poo! Most folk are good about it. But there's always that one guy, you know?

I fished here today. No fish hooked, but I do not mind. It's the peaceful feeling that the water gives me and quiet time when no one is demanding anything from me that I seek.

It's also only about a city block from my house. There is another fishing hole that is closer, but this one is special. Magical somehow.

Lou Reed John Cale Nico

Nico was a fashion model and friend of Andy Warhol. She also had a part in Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

I hope your Sunday is as sweet. :)

PHOTO TRAILS

I photographed these outside my library's back door in the science folk's domain. They are the first spring flowers that showed up in this nice protected corner. They were supposed to be for citizen when she was so low... flowers to cheer her up, but it took me too long to get it together. Oops.







This is my river... chock full of salmon, sturgeon, sculpin, which are a nasty little catfish wannabe thing with spikes that cut you and make a strangling quacking sound when you pull them out of the water... eeeech. Steelhead, trout, wide mouth bass, regular bass, squaw fish... that squawk when you catch them. I truly prefer my fish to remain mute as they suffocate! Actually, we catch and release, but several friends gift us with things they don't release. The only fish we don't release are the squaw fish because they are killing all the baby salmon and have a bounty on their slimy heads.


When you are not facing north at the river and Washington state beyond the other side of the river, and you turn around to face south... this is what you see. These are my gorge cliffs. Hard to tell with the clouds hanging there, but they are very steep. Click on it and it gets bigger. My town is no more than four blocks wide north to south and has only one main street. We are three and a half miles long.






Now this next one is for Citizen in particular and the rest of you too.
It reminds me of her aliens, though I am sure this was perpetrated by the science folk.
They are everywhere.

I've no clue what the experiment is, but there
is one for sure. What do you think they're doing?

I'll ask some questions and see what I can find out.



Favorite quotes overheard today...

"I'll tell..." #1

"Who you gonna tell?" #2

"God." #1

"Yeah... and he'll get all smitey and shit!" #3